Statesrights wrote on Mar 31
st, 2026 at 6:36pm:
Might have been turned in to some gubmint agency when they getting rid of assault rifles back in the day. “Neatly” deactivated.
Many years ago my father and I were helping to remodel a house owned by an older relative. In the course of tearing out sheet rock, we found two very old, rusted, and inoperable H&R revolvers in the walls of the garage.
Turned out there were both solid frame .32 rimfires. I took them home, intending to make shadow boxes, but they just sat in my garage getting rustier.
A friend who was pretty talented got them to function, sort of, but function they did and I took them to a police trade in event where I got enough cash to take he, his wife, his daughter, and myself out to dinner!

You could see that the cops working the event were none too pleased to be getting what was obviously paper weights, but they were obligated to, so they paid out.
Perfect end for what was essentially found junk!